Meaning of spongebag pants | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of spongebags.

US, plural, plural-only

Examples

“The town’s best dressed doorman is outside the Silver Dollar in East Fifty-fourth street, wearing gray top hat and racing coat and spongebag pants.”

“[…]the formidable old Charles Soames—who scared even me, when I met him later on, with his wall eye, monocle and spongebag pants.”

“John the Baptist would have been horrified at the beautifully cut dark, double-breasted jacket and the natty gray sponge bag pants.”

“‘Bishops, flood-lit Highlanders dancing reels under the palm-trees, Matrons, Maids, Saris, Sarongs, Black faces, White uniforms, and the hero of the party, Prince Mohammed Aly, in spongebag pants, red Tarboosh and carnation, and an emerald in his tie the size of a golf ball,’ observed Coats.”

“The ceremony was a formal affair and the men were expected to wear morning suits. So I dutifully pulled out my black tailcoat from Hackett, my black-and-white dogtooth-check “spongebag” pants, a Cornish cream hopsack waistcoat, a nice cornflower blue shirt with a stiff white collar, my silver tie from Ralph Lauren and a pair of highly polished, black Oxford shoes by New & Lingwood of Jermyn Street.”

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